Sheriff: Students, adult storm classroom, attack teenager at NC high school

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Eight people stormed a high school classroom and attacked a 14-year-old girl in an incident thought to have stemmed from an earlier fight at a school bus stop, a North Carolina sheriff’s office said Thursday.

The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office said a 16-year-old female student helped the group get inside Southern Guilford High School and lead them to an upstairs classroom, news outlets reported. The sheriff’s office described the group as six students and two adults and said they assaulted the 14-year-old student, who suffered facial injuries.

Faculty, administration and a school resource officer responded but did not have time to prevent the attack, the sheriff’s office said. The group ran away from the classroom, went down the stairs and made it out to the parking lot where they were stopped, according to authorities.

Capt. Brian Hall told WFMY that the adult who joined the group was a parent of a student who attends the high school.

“That was a deeply disturbing part for us,” Hall said. “You look at parents as the ones who are supposed to be giving the kid guidance as to how to handle these types of things, not encouraging it.”

Charges were pending on Thursday afternoon. Investigators are using surveillance video, cellphone video and witness testimony to determine exactly what happened.

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